Right Sector

The Right Sector is a far-right ultranationalist political party in Ukraine that was founded in November 2013 as a paramilitary group and on 22 March 2014 as a political party. A fascist group, the Right Sector is a Ukrainian nationalist organization, a coalition of radical groups (some of which were anti-Semitic).

History
The Right Sector was created in November 2013 as a paramilitary group during the Euromaidan protests. Their ideology was far-right (considered by some as neofascist), ultranationalist, and racist (they have been believed to hate on Jews, Vietnamese, Uzbeks, and Romani). During the Euromaidan protests, Right Sector street fighters fought off riot police from Viktor Yanukovych's pro-Russia dictatorship, and they supported the revolution. On 11 March 2014, the Russian Duma called on their special services to liquidate Right Sector, claiming that the reason that the Russian Army invaded Crimea was to protect Russian-speakers and Jews from the Right Sector extremists. On 22 March, Right Sector became a political party. On 24 March 2014 its radical leader Oleksandr Muzychko was killed by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry because he had ties to hooliganism, threats against the government, and organized crime, and although they were hostile to the government for a few days, they supported them during the Ukrainian Civil War.

Right Sector militiamen fought alongisde the Ukrainian Army and volunteer units during the civil war against the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), the two pro-Russian separatist governments. The Right Sector was responsible for protecting Jewish sites in Odessa (although some news outlets claim that they are neo-Nazis and anti-Semitic), and they also surveilled the city of Mariupol after Ukraine recaptured it from Russian separatists. They still contribute to the war against Russia and their separatist allies.